FreeBSD and ports vs. vlc

[Bjarne Wichmann Petersen]

Upon reading that vlc would compile and run on FreeBSD-system I've tried
for the last couple of hours to do just that... in vain. Almost all
plugins fails to build though gnome, kde, sdl etc. are installed.

I believe the problem lies with the way FreeBSD's port-system installs the
various libraries. Eg. vlc chokes when it can't find ...SDL/SDL.h, but it
should look in SDL11/SDL.h instead. Same goes for gtk12, qt2, kde2 and
possible others as well. 

So I'm not able to compile vlc on FreeBSD unless I reinstall gtk, gnome,
qt, kde, sdl, whatever manually and thus breaking the whole system. :-(

Another issue... I really miss an uninstall-option in the Makefile! ;)

Bjarne